"contagium" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: contagia [plural]
Etymology: From Latin contagium (“contagion”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*teh₂g-|id=touch}}, {{bor|en|la|contagium||contagion}} Latin contagium (“contagion”) Head templates: {{en-noun|contagia}} contagium (plural contagia)
  1. (archaic) contagion; contagious matter Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-contagium-en-noun-2R6BnrXU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Latin]

Etymology: From contingo (“to contact; contaminate”) + -ium, from con- (“with”) + tango (“to touch”). More precisely, built on the root of the verb (see Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-) and so lacks the nasal infix found in the verb's present stem; compare contāgiō and contāminō. Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*teh₂g-|id=touch}}, {{af|la|contingo|-ium|t1=to contact; contaminate}} contingo (“to contact; contaminate”) + -ium, {{af|la|con-|tango|t1=with|t2=to touch}} con- (“with”) + tango (“to touch”), {{der|la|ine-pro|*teh₂g-|nocat=1}} Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, {{m|la|contāgiō}} contāgiō, {{m|la|contāminō}} contāminō Head templates: {{la-noun|contāgium<2>}} contāgium n (genitive contāgiī or contāgī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|contāgium<2>}} Forms: contāgium [canonical, neuter], contāgiī [genitive], contāgī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], contāgium [nominative, singular], contāgia [nominative, plural], contāgiī [genitive, singular], contāgī [genitive, singular], contāgiōrum [genitive, plural], contāgiō [dative, singular], contāgiīs [dative, plural], contāgium [accusative, singular], contāgia [accusative, plural], contāgiō [ablative, singular], contāgiīs [ablative, plural], contāgium [singular, vocative], contāgia [plural, vocative]
  1. contact, touching Tags: declension-2 Synonyms: contāctus, contāgiō
    Sense id: en-contagium-la-noun-Mc2Ze8D~ Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the second declension, Latin terms prefixed with con-, Latin terms suffixed with -ium Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 65 35 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 62 38 Disambiguation of Latin terms prefixed with con-: 78 22 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -ium: 83 17
  2. contagion Tags: declension-2 Synonyms: contāctus, contāminātiō
    Sense id: en-contagium-la-noun-G5soWSo-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: contāgiō, contingō

Inflected forms

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        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contāgī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contāgiōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contāgiō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contāgiīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contāgium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contāgia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contāgiō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contāgiīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contāgium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "contāgia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "contāgium<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "contāgium n (genitive contāgiī or contāgī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "contāgium<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "contāgiō"
    },
    {
      "word": "contingō"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "contact, touching"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "contact",
          "contact"
        ],
        [
          "touching",
          "touching"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "contāctus"
        },
        {
          "word": "contāgiō"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "contagion"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "contagion",
          "contagion"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "contāctus"
        },
        {
          "word": "contāminātiō"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "contagium"
}

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